My latest in PJ Media:
When Corey Johnson was 17, he murdered a 13-year-old boy, Jovanni Sierra Brand, and stabbed two other people because they “idolized celebrities and disrespected his Muslim faith.” Johnson is now 21. On Thursday, he got a life sentence for the murder, but no one seems to be pondering the larger implications of the case.
The UK’s Daily Mail reported Thursday that “Palm Beach County Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo sentenced Johnson to life in prison and said on Thursday she did not believe rehabilitation was likely for Johnson after he remained emotionless during the heartfelt testimony of Jovanni’s mother.”
When he was in court Thursday, Johnson did make an attempt to show remorse: “I wish I could take it back, I wish I could do something to make this right. I’d like to apologize not because it will change anything, but because I’m really truly sorry.” Johnson also, according to the Daily Mail, said that he “regretted following the Islamic extremist group ISIS, and that he hoped to help people to compensate for the crimes he had committed.”
The most important aspect of this story, however, apart from the lives lost and ruined, is the fact that Johnson had only recently converted to Islam when he killed Brand and had already come to the attention of law enforcement before he committed murder. “At the time of his arrest for the killing of Jovanni in 2018,” the Daily Mail reported, “Johnson already had federal charges pending against him for threatening a Catholic school in England.”
His case was so serious that FBI agents met with administrators at his high school; Johnson “had reached out to ISIS online saying that he wished to join the murderous terrorist group.” In October 2016, he sent threats to McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster, England (there is no indication of why he chose that school). “Authorities said the threats were so serious that up to 100 students withdrew from the school for fear of an attack.” One of the messages Johnson sent to the school said: “We have our sights set on you, and by Allah we will kill every infidel student at this school inshallah) #McAuleySchoolMassacre.”
So he reached out to ISIS, wanted to join the terrorist group, and sent threats of a jihad massacre to a school. Yet over a year later he was still running around loose and unsupervised to the extent that he was able to buy a knife, even though he was underage, and use it on three people, killing one. Corey Johnson was never placed on a “watch list.” Nothing was done at all.
Local10.com reported at the time of the attack that “in his statement, Johnson advised he stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith,” and that “just before the attack, Johnson was reading the Quran from his phone ‘to give him courage to carry out his intentions.’”
There is more. Read the rest here.
mortimer says
The loss of ‘HONOR’ is an important motive in Islam to attack KAFIRS. When KAFIRS disrespect Islam, Muslims lose ‘HONOR’. Honor is restored to a Muslim through the shedding of blood.
No kafir is ever ‘innocent’, so killing them is a small matter and accomplishes the justice of Allah against them. That is because all kafirs deserve to be killed because they reject Mohammed.
Islam thus considers all kafirs legitimate targets for revenge in settling a matter of Islamic honor, especially when they openly discuss Islam in a derogatory manner.
To criticize Islam is considered fighting against Islam, so bloodshed is authorized.
-K.11.173 “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.”
-K.2.178 “O you who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.”
-K.5:33 “The reprisal against those who wage war on Allah and His Messenger, and go about the earth corrupting it, is that they should be killed or crucified, or have their alternate hands and feet cut off, or be banished from the land.” Waging war against Allah is rejecting Him.”–Tafsir of Imam al-Bukhari
-Imam AbdulLatif ibn AbdurRahman rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed and act upon it, and yet not be hostile against the mushrikeen. So anyone who isn’t hostile against the mushrikeen, then it can’t be said that he acts upon Tawheed, nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
Proud Islamophobe says
Well said, of course. Even if you’re not a born-again Christian, here are two things you might find interesting:
1. “There is no drop of liquid as loved by Allah more than the liquid of blood.” – Muslim cleric Abu Hamza
2. The TRUE definition of infidel according to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and the Hebrew-Greek Lexicon is as follows (I can’t bold or italicize here so please read carefully to ‘catch’ it):
◄ 571. apistos ►
Strong’s Concordance
apistos: incredible, unbelieving
Original Word: ἄπιστος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: apistos
Phonetic Spelling: (ap’-is-tos)
Definition: incredible, unbelieving
Usage: unbelieving, incredulous, unchristian; sometimes subst: unbeliever.
HELPS Word-studies
571 ápistos (from 1 /A “not” and 4103 /pistós, “faithful,” see there) – properly, not faithful because unpersuaded, i.e. not convinced (persuaded by God). 571 /ápistos (“faithless, unpersuaded”) does not always refer to the unconverted – see Jn 20:27. 571 (ápistos) describes someone who rejects or refuses God’s inbirthings of faith (note the root, faith, 4102 /pístis).
Thayer’s Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 571: ἄπιστος
ἄπιστος, ἄπιστον (πιστός) (from Homer down), without faith or trust;
1. unfaithful, faithless (not to be trusted, perfidious): Luke 12:46; Revelation 21:8.
2. incredible, of things: Acts 26:8; (Xenophon, Hiero 1, 9; syrup. 4, 49; Cyril 3, 1, 26; Plato, Phaedr. 245 c.; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 10, 2, etc.).
3. unbelieving, incredulous: of Thomas disbelieving the news of the resurrection of Jesus, John 20:27; of those who refuse belief in the gospel, 1 Corinthians 6:6; 1 Corinthians 7:12-15; 1 Corinthians 10:27; 1 Corinthians 14:22ff; (1 Timothy 5:8); with the added idea of impiety and wickedness, 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Corinthians 6:14f of those among the Christians themselves who reject the true faith, Titus 1:15. without trust (in God), Matthew 17:17; Mark 9:19; Luke 9:41.
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
faithless, unbelieving.
From a (as a negative particle) and pistos; (actively) disbelieving, i.e. Without Christian faith (specially, a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing) — that believeth not, faithless, incredible thing, infidel, unbeliever(-ing).
see GREEK a
see GREEK pistos
Forms and Transliterations
απιστοι άπιστοι ἄπιστοι απιστοις απίστοις ἀπίστοις απιστον άπιστον ἄπιστον απιστος άπιστος ἄπιστος απιστου απίστου ἀπίστου απιστων απίστων ἀπίστων άπλαστος άπληστοι άπληστος απληστότερος απλήστω απλοσύνης apistoi ápistoi apistois apístois apiston apistōn apíston apístōn ápiston apistos ápistos apistou apístou
gregbeetham says
He took his juvenile power trip too far, he was probably impressed by the fear ISIS can generate in those who fall under its dominion or influence and most teens have none of the above so becoming a make believe member of ISIS (it hasn’t been established if ISIS thought he had the qualifications, probably not), gave him instant power, a useless for anything constructive power, but power in his mind at least, and it all went pear shaped from there.
maria says
He is a murderer and should be executed. it is the only way to stop islam in the world.
If the muslims see that majority people are against him then they start to use takiya(lie, deceit),
but the world must ignore their lies and fight them. When they are defeated then they run away because they are cowards and their brains are sick
gregbeetham says
The Chinese and Myanmar tend to execute Muslims (some of them) before they do something, (they have done something of course, they are Muslims after all, but the ones they killed might not be the ones responsible so they kill some extra ones just to be sure) which maybe is a tad harsh perhaps but it does seem to keep the rest of them in line for a while.
abu taleb says
Another convert to Islam murders people. Talking about this must be Islamophobia.
European pagan says
Prison is a good solution. He will have time to think. He converted in a young age, maybe he will leave this religion, it brings only problems.
Michael Copeland says
“You’ll have plenty of time to study the Koran in prison…the Koran is a book of peace.”
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave
Robert Spencer wrote:
Has Mr Justice Haddon-Cave ever actually read the Qur’an? Almost certainly not; otherwise he wouldn’t have gone on record with this spectacularly asinine and counterfactual statement.
Michael Copeland says
One of the muslims imprisoned for sending death threats to South Park cartoonists, who had depicted Mohammed in a bear suit, was Jesse Morton. He was a convert to Islam. In prison he left Islam, and since his release has been active in counter-Islam.
One item he relates is that Islam teaches that the “end times” tribulations are to be between the muslims and the christians.
https://www.rebelnews.com/jesse_morton_threatened_south_park_in_the_name_of_islam_ex_jihadist_tells_all?utm_campaign=clarion_jesse_morton&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
Michael Copeland says
Correction:
“the End of Times battle between the kuffar – the non-muslims – and the muslims”
Jesse Morton
Proud Islamophobe says
//”Johnson was reading the Quran from his phone ‘to give him courage to carry out his intentions.”//
More like reinforced brainwashing.
This entire article is wonderfully summarized. Click on “Read the rest here.”
OLD GUY says
Well I hope he found his honor in his prison cell, if not he will have plenty of time to look for it in that small space. As a proponent of the DEATH PENALTY for vicious crimes, I’am sorry to hear that us tax payers will have to support him for all those years. Whats the value? He obviously has no value of life for others or he wouldn’t have killed this 13 yr. old child.
Naildriver says
The real crime is he became a Muslim at the encouragement of this very country’s liberal government, as if Islam were a dignified, good and moral alternative to other faiths — and Islam remains a protected entity — though culpable, to continue its proselytizing of hereto fore innocent children — that incites such behavior, in conjunction with other devotees. Islam is the enemy for such crimes.